48 posts tagged with art by cortex.
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i've heard of marble madness but
Ivan Miranda decides to use a lot of 3D printing and a lot of hand tooling to, both figuratively and literally, roll his own seven-segment digital clock: Building a Marble Clock - part 1 and part 2.
i reckon it looks amazing
Pask Makes A Mid-Century Table: a chill and genial Aussie woodworker narrates his way start to finish through a very pretty one-off dining table project that I absolutely did not start watching just because of the tiling table top pattern. Includes a brief cameo by a placid, sleepy surprise python, because Australia.
what's red and invisible? no tomatoes
Nothing survives transcription, nothing doesn’t survive transcription: a talk (or the text thereof, and, yes yes, you're very clever, now shut up and read it) about the fundamental inability of transcription to capture that which it is transcribing, by Mefi's Own Allison Parrish.
a hand sitting still on a handrail and the bodies blurring past together
Alexey Titarenko is a Russian photographer with a particular focus on long exposure and city photography, a combination that leads to stunning civic ghostliness as in, among other collections, City of Shadows (1991-1994), or the somewhat more restrained New York (2004-present). See also his photocollage of perestroika-era signs and symbols, Nomenclature of Signs. [more inside]
Cathode Ray Thread
Marine, aka moonovermarine, is a French embroidery artist much of whose work adapts imagery from games, movies, and other cultural wells. Their current project: a series of scenes from the monochrome ZX Spectrum game "Sentinel".
Ecce Logo
North of the Border, Canadian maker of things, discloses: I made a Realistic Lego Man and I'm Sorry.
These boots were made for narrative photographic essaying
100 Boots is a narrative work of photographic art by Eleanor Antin, made of 51 postcards over the course of 1971-1973, telling a visual story of a collection of rubber boots making a pilgrimage from San Diego to New York. Additional bits at MoMa; kadist.org; getty.edu.
street fighter, more like, uh, sheet...highlighter
Fabien Sanglard looks into when Capcom stopped laying out CPS-1 arcade sprite sheets by hand with scissors.
animation work that's difficult to match
you take your car to work, i'll elaborately detail a longboard
Can I interest you in a wordless 14-minute timelapse video of making a fancy surfboard?
at last, something NIMBy that i can get behind
No-Instrument Mixing Board is a full-length album of manipulated feedback by Japanese musician Toshimaru Nakamura, whose instrument is a mixing board with its output plugged into its input. (Track 4 has some very high frequency tones; you may want to skip to 25:20 when those show up if you still have your hearing up there.)
come for the SNES sprite art, stay for The Baby Agitator
An engineer, in fine engineer fashion, decides to save time making perler bead sprite art by hand by spending nine months iterating on a modified perler bead 3D printer.
Take a break and watch some chill linocut TV
Maarit Hänninen is a Finnish artist who makes linocut work, and sometimes creates short montage videos documenting the process:
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow
- Nymph
- Eden
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow
- Nymph
- Eden
haystack in the needle
Embroidery renderings of aerial views, and other landscapes and such, by English textile artist Victoria Rose Richards.
break open the chamber, two dozen angry triangles throb out
take in the black and white cyberpunk mood of lvl374, all pixels and chromatic aberration and android dystopia, scenes from a game that never existed and you can't forget playing
I will not greyish forms; greyish forms are the mind-killer.
From the Public Domain Review: Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia, a look at the intersection of early 20th century occult theory, theosophical tomfoolery, and aesthetic abstraction in Besant and Leadbetter's Thought-Forms.
voxel populi
Paintings of 2D video game sprites as volumetric 3D objects in perspective, by Chad Ferber:
Joust
Missile Command, 2
Space Invaders, 2, 3, 4
Joust
Missile Command, 2
Space Invaders, 2, 3, 4
Buy faible, sell haute
Making the Times-Sotheby Index; exposing art bidding deceptions: how Geraldine Norman (née Keen) built up the idea of art as an investment commodity and then fell out of favor with the auction system she'd abetted for trying to keep them honest.
Space-filling curves the hard way
Wacław Szpakowski was a polish artist who made a series of complex drawings using one continuous line turning back on itself repeatedly. More examples viewable here; a few animated versions; some pages from his notebooks. (Those last three links are futzy embeddings from waclawszpakowski.pl, which has Polish- and English-language info about his life and work.) More images still if you click on "IMAGES" at the top right of this page.
100 Variations
100 Variations presents a collection of 100 grey-scaled Rubik's Cubes arranged in 100 different symmetrical configurations within a 6x6x? cube volume. Click through the individual photos for explanatory captions. More from artist Roula Partheniou.
something something "square meal" something
Some physically pixelated (voxelated?) foodstuffs from Yuni Yoshida, art director:
- Apple and banana.
- Pineapple.
- Hamburger.
Also tilings and textures and patterns and tilings. [via kottke, c/o mltshp.]
- Apple and banana.
- Pineapple.
- Hamburger.
Also tilings and textures and patterns and tilings. [via kottke, c/o mltshp.]
If the plate is vibratin', do be note-takin'
Here's a gorgeous collection of Chladni figures, illustrations of vibration patterns by acoustics pioneer Ernst Chladni. Full scan of the original 18th C. German text (illustrations start around page 90). Hat tip to interrobang.
Chladni and cymatics variously previously on MetaFilter: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014.
Chladni and cymatics variously previously on MetaFilter: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014.
"Why? Just because it looks nice."
Bubbling Trains ~ Accessibility Fireworks ~ Roads of America ~ Gulf of Finland
Helsinki-based GIS enthusiast Topi Tjukanov makes lovely visualizations of e.g. road and traffic data.
Helsinki-based GIS enthusiast Topi Tjukanov makes lovely visualizations of e.g. road and traffic data.
Also featuring: birds; turds; moles; voles
Spend ten minutes exploring the strange circle-of-life adventure of Rabbit Game, a game where you are a rabbit. There is also some non-rabbit content.
probably getting tired of the "oh, your skull, is it" jokes tho
lost above the scriptorium
A dev named Nothke talks about implementing a simple navigable infinitely large library, inspired in part by Borges, Castel del Monte and Jonathan Bosile's earlier Borges project, libraryofbabel.info (of which previously).
Burn each match just so, and arrange in a diamond.
Adam Hillman, an artist from New Jersey, makes colorful geometric art from the arrangement of unremarkable objects.
it's like Vine for old-school console games
Back to Bits is a curated collection of short, small animation loops based on classic video games. Here's the whole Level 2 collection as a video; see also the (maybe slower-loading?) Level 1 archive and corresponding video montage.
What would you do to gave you? [rooster photo] DOCTOR STRUGGLE
Check out AI Generated Movie Posters, a site featuring movie posters generated by AI. Built by our own OrangeGloves, via mefi projects.
it's simple and easy cuz you know what to do
hi, I'm Steve, a short animation about someone who isn't named Steve. By Bill Wurtz of whom previously and thus and so forth.
faces half-emerging from books; faces half-disappearing from paintings
Two sets of work from artist Grégory Chiha:
- Têtes brûlées, books carefully burnt to create images of heads and faces.
- Fantômes, paintings with warped/strange/half-there subjects.
- Têtes brûlées, books carefully burnt to create images of heads and faces.
- Fantômes, paintings with warped/strange/half-there subjects.
smeared trees, red rivers, weird dreams
From photographer Julieanne Kost, three different excellent collections of work:
- streaked, blurred handheld pictures from a vehicle in Passenger Seat I and Passenger Seat II
- implausibly colored landscape abstracts in recent aerial photographs
- eerie photo manipulation collages in What I Dream
- streaked, blurred handheld pictures from a vehicle in Passenger Seat I and Passenger Seat II
- implausibly colored landscape abstracts in recent aerial photographs
- eerie photo manipulation collages in What I Dream
The gorgeous line art abstractions of Andrew G. Fisher
Forgotten Corners is a gorgeous series of pairs of black and white line abstractions and reference photos of architecture and city environments, by artist Andrew G. Fisher. See also the more recent series, incorporating color elements, A Stolen Day on a Stolen Trip. [more inside]
Rules Rule Everything Around Me
Yeah, sure, cellular automata are pretty great, whatever. Wait! Let's knit them on scarves! Yeah. Yeah, that's the--WAIT! I've got it! Let's plaster 'em all over a goddam train station!
Oliver, 4; Beth, 36
FamilyTree is a photo collage project by artist Bobby Neel Adams, joining portraits of intergenerational family members together along a ragged border. [more inside]
With this change in place, the blobs look more interesting
Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space
Agnes Denes' Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space-Map Projections is a series of drawings of world maps projected onto non-spherical shapes: pyramid, torus, cube, snail, and so on. Collected in the (very out of print) Map Projections, which you can browse here (or with zooming via a flash version).
Not pictured: pointless shaking of developing photo
Nine Polaroid Photographs of a Mirror, by William Anastasi.
Did I mention I like his egg paintings
Scott Conary is an oil painter in Portland, Oregon. He paints eggs. Gorgeous, glowing eggs. Also other things, sure. Meat sometimes. But also eggs.
The photography of Maria Svarbova
Maria Svarbova is a Slovakian photographer who specializes in white and pastel compositions with bright accents, featuring people in carefully static and sometimes eerily affectless poses. The Dining Room. Pool Without Water. Healthy Teeth, Good Mood.
Standing apart somewhat from the rest and visually remarkable in its own right is (n.b. nudity) God's Mirror.
Standing apart somewhat from the rest and visually remarkable in its own right is (n.b. nudity) God's Mirror.
Justin Cyr's pixel art
Justin Cyr makes pixel art, and has done a number of 32x32 portrait studies using the 16 color MSX palette. Here's 16 portraits. Wait, here's a timelapse of 16 portraits. Hold on, geez, here's 500 portraits. No, wait, shit, here's over a thousand. Also, hey, an animated 8-bit kraken.
An unsettling reindexing of depth and dimension
Weronika Gęsicka is a Polish photographer and artist who creates surreal, fractured variations on mid-century Americana imagery.
Cartoon fables with strange reversals
the inside of my Trapper Keeper except British actors instead of horses
Behold, terrible drawings of British actors. (Note: the blog was originally called Terrible Drawings of John Finnemore, but there weren't enough pictures of John Finnemore on the internet, and, so, yes.)
like, it's FROM a bird, but then there's a bird IN it, i don't even--
Cut feather shadowboxes: feather art by Chris Maynard.
Crisis on Infinite Blogs
One response to all the hubbub about DC Comics' unfolding "New 52" re-launch of the DC Universe comics: a pile of independent cartoonists creating cover art for the book launches/relaunches they'd like to see, at DC Fifty-Two. Some of it is straight-faced, some of it is...less so. BIFF! The Justice League as a western! POW! The Geek vs. Hell's Nixons! BLAM! Classical art references!
The pop culture art of Phil Noto
Phil Noto illustrates the hell out of comics, TV, pulp fiction, music, and being a six year old artist at his blog, Your Nice New Outfit. Oh shit it's the Master Blaster!
Joyce in postcards
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